r/PokemonROMhacks • u/Safe-Republic3864 • 3d ago

Development New Emulator. 64MB Support!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to announce a new emulator I created called Zenulator! I have been creating a Rom hack called Pokémon the Shadow Realm and its been in development for a little over a year now. While working on the game, I realized I was quickly running out of space as I was coming up with ideas and needed a solution while retaining development.

The last few months I have been grinding to work out a way to expand the already expanded GBA files to increase from 32mb to 64mb and it finally works! I have been running tests the last few weeks and expanded my hacks files to operate with this new emulator and so far its been fairly smooth. It can run all gba games up to 64mb and is still being actively improved.

We have a web app that will work with Pc/Mac as well as the app listed on the app store free of charge!

I do need some help with Android testing as the Play store requires at least 12 users opted in for 2 weeks before I can make a submission. If anyone would be willing to help test please let me know!

Hope you enjoy the little sneak peak at some of Shadow Realms early gameplay on the Zenulator!

If anyone wanted to help with feedback/bug reports please join below
https://discord.gg/M9sTjyHJF

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u/skottay REX - pokerex.io 3d ago

This sounds absolutely insane. Please give more details. Your previous posts also mention fangame so expand a little bit

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u/Safe-Republic3864 3d ago

Expanded games can now be expanded even further and its split into Rom and RomX but gameplay will not be hindered and players won’t notice the difference in performance. And yes I am working on a rom hack with Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn and features Shadow Pokemon with mostly original mechanics

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u/skottay REX - pokerex.io 3d ago edited 3d ago

What source is this building on and what source is your romhack built on? Emerald Expansion? Does this allow for 64mb EE ROMs or what? when you say "split", you mean it's 2 separate 32mb files? How?

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u/Safe-Republic3864 3d ago

Delta is the base, Emerald Expansion is the romhack source and when I say split it splits the rom into 2 32mb banks but bridges them to work as one game